Make distclean does not remove intl/config.cache

[Christoffer Dall]

For example,

if incorrectly doing:

./configure --host=arm-linux
make

it complains if you don't have a cross-compiler with that prefix, and you realize your mistake and do:

make distclean
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi
make

Then it says that your build environment has changed and you need to do make distclean, which you just did.

Thanks,
Christoffer

[Christoffer Dall (cdall)]

My make distclean output looks like this:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02'
Doing distclean in etc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02/etc'
rm -f *.aux *.cp *.cps *.dvi *.fn *.fns *.ky *.kys *.log
rm -f *.pg *.pgs *.toc *.tp *.tps *.vr *.vrs
rm -f configdev.txt configbuild.txt
rm -f configdev.eps configbuild.eps
rm -f configdev.jpg configbuild.jpg
rm -f Makefile config.status config.cache
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02/etc'
Doing distclean in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02/intl'
rm -f *.a *.la *.o *.obj *.lo core core.* libintl.h
rm -f config.status config.cache config.log config.intl config.h
rm -f Makefile ID TAGS
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02/intl'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `distclean-target'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/christoffer/src/kvmarm/gdb-linaro-7.4-2012.02'
rm -f *.a TEMP errs core *.o *~ \#* TAGS *.E *.log
rm -f Makefile config.status config.cache mh-frag mt-frag
rm -f maybedep.tmp serdep.tmp
if [ "arm-linux-gnueabi" != "." ]; then \
   rm -rf arm-linux-gnueabi; \
 else true; fi
rm -rf build-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
if [ "." != "." ]; then \
   rm -rf .; \
 else true; fi
rm -f texinfo/po/Makefile texinfo/po/Makefile.in texinfo/info/Makefile
rm -f texinfo/doc/Makefile texinfo/po/POTFILES
rmdir texinfo/doc texinfo/info texinfo/intl texinfo/lib 2>/dev/null
make: [local-distclean] Error 1 (ignored)
rmdir texinfo/makeinfo texinfo/po texinfo/util 2>/dev/null
make: [local-distclean] Error 1 (ignored)
rmdir fastjar gcc libiberty texinfo zlib 2>/dev/null
make: [local-distclean] Error 1 (ignored)
find . -name config.cache -exec rm -f {} \; \; 2>/dev/null
make: [local-distclean] Error 1 (ignored)

[Muhammad Omair Javaid (omair-javaid)]

** Test Host
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"

** gdb-linaro revno 39073

Unable to reproduce with following steps:

#1)
omjavaid@omjavaid-ThinkPad-T420:~/output/check/gdb-linaro$ ./configure --host=arm-linux
omjavaid@omjavaid-ThinkPad-T420:~/output/check/gdb-linaro$ make

#2)
omjavaid@omjavaid-ThinkPad-T420:~/output/check/gdb-linaro$ find . -name config.cache
./sim/config.cache
./opcodes/config.cache
./libdecnumber/config.cache
./gdb/config.cache
./gdb/build-gnulib/config.cache
./intl/config.cache
./libiberty/config.cache
./etc/config.cache
./readline/config.cache
./bfd/config.cache

#3
omjavaid@omjavaid-ThinkPad-T420:~/output/check/gdb-linaro$ make distclean

#4
omjavaid@omjavaid-ThinkPad-T420:~/output/check/gdb-linaro$ find . -name config.cache
./gdb/config.cache
./gdb/build-gnulib/config.cache

[Will Newton (will-newton)]

The above sequence seems to work with current versions of binutils. If problems remain then please open an issue at bugs.linaro.org.